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If you want your daughter to succeed, buy her a toy construction set.
That is the (0)_______ from Britain's (1)_______ female engineers and
scientists. Marie-Noelle Barton, who heads an Engineering Council campaign
to encourage girls into science and engineering, maintains that some of
Britain's most successful women have had their careers (2)_______ by the
toys they played with as children. Even girls who end (3)_______ nowhere
near a microchip or microscope could benefit from a better (4)_______ of
science and technology.
'It's a (5)_______ of giving them experience and confidence with
technology so that when they are (6)_______
with a situation requiring some technical know-how, they feel they can
handle it and don't just (7)_______ defeat immediately,' says Mrs Barton.
'I believe that lots of girls feel unsure of themselves when it comes (8)_______
technology and therefore they might be losing out on jobs because they are reluctant
even to apply for them.'
Research recently carried (9)_______ suggests that scientific and
constructional toys should be (10)_______ to girls from an early age,
otherwise the result is 'socialisation' into stereotypically female (11)_______,
which may explain why relatively few girls study science and engineering at
university in Britain. Only 14% of those who have gone for engineering (12)_______
at university this year are women, although this figure does represent an
improvement on the 7% recorded some years ago.
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